These people—the French or other Europeans—had no damn clue how to grow rice.

No, they didn’t even have the grain.

And the other thing that's so important—and I'm only talking about this point here, I'm not talking about up and down the Gullah [corridor]—we were rice growers. They not only brought the rice that made the millions, but also knew how to engineer the rice fields because the rice fields weren't here.